Monday, 22 September 2014

Britain's Secret War in Antarctica

N.I. Editor’s note: Regardless of the melodramatic and apparently
unlikely nature of the following account, this article details a number of
interesting facts regarding the NAZI war effort and suppressed technologies
that have recently come to light from a number of different sources, most of
which support the following:

At the end of World War II, Britain sent a covert
mission to investigate anomalous activities near its secret base at Maudheimin eastern Antarctica and to seek
out and destroy a subterranean Nazi haven.

While some high-ranking Nazis would have known
about the haven created in the ice inNeuschwabenland, after Hitler’s
death it wasGrand Admiral Dönitzwho held the trump card with his
knowledge of U-boat movements.

Britain’s Influential Captures

With British forces
controlling northern Germany and the ports that went with
their sector at the end of World War II, there was a strong likelihood of their
capturing most of the Nazi hierarchy.

They were also
ideally placed because Russia was more interested in Berlin, and the vast US
forces were stationed mainly in southern Germany where they had been sent to
investigate the supposed "Redoubt". Even so, four years before the
end of the war, Britain had managed to apprehend the Deputy Führer of the Third
Reich, Rudolph Hess, and he was arguably the most knowledgeable of all the
Nazis at that juncture.

Rudolph Hess landed
in Scotland on 10 May 1941 and asked to meet the Duke of Hamilton. His plans
for peace talks were quickly rebutted, and so began his 46-year incarceration.
Hess’s imprisonment is one of the most widely discussed mysteries of the war.
Some claim he was imprisoned because of the damage any revelations he possessed
would inflict on the British monarchy.

Others claim that
Britain’s refusal of his peace proposal led to the nation’s huge losses
territorially, materially, financially and emotionally; because of his
silencing, the British people never heard the peace terms or learned how
beneficial they may have proved. However, as Christof Friedrich claims,9some believe that "Hess
was entrusted with the all-important Antarctic file"; but whether this was
a paper file or a mental note, one thing is for certain: Hess, Deputy Führer,
would have known everything about the Nazis’ Antarctic intentions.

Though Hess was dismissed by both Hitler and the British Government as
"insane",10surely Hess’s insanity would have restricted his ability in his
numerous roles in the Nazi Party and Government. Yet Hess was chief of theAuslandsorganisation, Commissar
for Foreign Policy, Commissar for All University Matters and University Policy,
Commissar for All Technological Matters and Organization, and also head of the
Office for Racial Policy.11Hess, in layman’s terms, had his "finger in every pie".

Rudolph Hess was also an active member of the Thule Society, and his interest
in Antarctica would have been on both personal and professional levels. Hess, a
keen aviator, used his position in both the Nazi Party and the Thule Society to
meet Richard Byrd when he lectured the personnel who were heading for the
Antarctic with theDeutsche
Antarktische Expedition(German
Antarctic Expedition) in 1938, and through his channels Hess would have known
everything that had been discovered inNeuschwabenland.

Byrd, a living
legend throughout the world for being the first man to fly over both thenorth and south poles, was possibly the most well-informed polar
explorer ever, and he divulged his vast knowledge and details of his exploits
to the Nazis.

Byrd’s advice in his lecture and ultimately the Nazis’ successful expedition to
claim Neuschwabenland(click image left)may have given the Nazis conviction enough to establish a viable
Antarctic base. Hess’s flight and eventual capture a few years after theDeutsche Antarktische Expeditionmeant that plans would have been
underway.

His enviable
position as Deputy Führer and his close affiliation with the Thule Society
which sponsored the expedition meant, as Canadian journalist Pierre van Paasen
claimed shortly after Hess’s flight, that "[t]here was no major military
plan and secret of the Third Reich of which he was unaware".12

Of his 46 years in prison, Hess spent the first four totally under British
jurisdiction.

The secrets he gave away in those four years, though dismissed officially as
"lunacy" by the British Government and at the Nuremberg Trials, were
taken seriously in some quarters - particularly after Britain had caught more
of Germany’s most powerful Nazis at the end of the war. Unfortunately, with
Hess being imprisoned until his suspicious "suicide" in 1987 at the
age of ninety-seven,13all records about him are locked firmly away under the UK Official
Secrets Act and will be for the foreseeable future. Only circumstantial
evidence can be used to gauge how much or how little Hess knew about the
Antarctic haven.

Heinrich Himmler,Reichsführer
of the SS, was captured on 23 May 1945 by the British. Though he managed to
kill himself with a cyanide capsule and thus evade interrogation, his entourage
did not have that luxury. Himmler was denounced as a traitor by Hitler for trying
to make peace with the US and Britain. But as Himmler had nothing to bargain
with and his heinous past meant certain execution, could he still have offered
the British information that they desired in the hope of escape or, at worst, a
chance to evade the hangman?

Unfortunately for him, with no chance of a reprieve and with Dönitz being
apprehended the same day, Himmler became an irrelevance; and with his
"disgust" at being treated as just a lowly soldier, he announced who
he was before inducing his death. Britain nevertheless more than likely gained
all the knowledge that Himmler possessed by interrogating his entourage
exhaustively. Whatever knowledge Himmler had wished to share, was shared - and
without the British having to keep one the vilest men in Europe in their
custody.

Himmler, labelled a "half crank, half schoolmaster"14by Albert Speer, had managed to
rise from being a lowly poultry farmer to becoming the most feared, reviled man
in Europe because of his system of terror, which made mass murder an industry,
and because of his faithful paramilitary SS who ensured "loyalty" and
"obedience" to the Nazi State.

The SS Ahnenerbe missions which Himmler authorized in pursuit of the
"ancestral Aryan legacy" to such remote places as Tibet, Egypt and Iraq,
and even as close by as the Channel Islands, brought in an inestimable amount
of research. And though the 1938Deutsche
Antarktische Expeditionwas
firmly under Hermann Göring’s control, Himmler was indeed more than interested
in the findings of the expedition and the possibility of discovering an
entrance to the fabled Hollow Earth - so much so that he surely would have
demanded to have been informed for the sake of furthering the Aryan legacy
myth.

Even so, how much Himmler knew that was not already known by British
Intelligence at the end of the war is debatable, though invaluable to the
Allies and Britain in particular were the results of the numerous SS Ahnenerbe
missions.

Even though Dr
Ernst Schäfer, who led the Tibet Expedition, claimed that "Himmler had
some very strange ideas"15and also that "[t]hey all dabbled in the occult",16this made no difference to the
validity or invalidity of any research or evidence collected.

Rudolph Hess

Heinrich Himmler

Hermann Göring

Himmler evaded the
hangman’s noose by a cyanide capsule, and Göring also used a cyanide capsule on
the eve of his execution.

Could the pills
have been supplied by Britain’s SOE in return for information? Hess, Himmler
and Göring were all able to commit "suicide" whilst in custody
- two of them being firmly in British custody at the time. All three "suicides"
have an aura of mystery surrounding them, especially since the three men would
have had some knowledge to share about Antarctica.

Hermann Göring, though captured by US forces, still had a fair deal of
knowledge about the German Antarctic expeditions of 1938–39 and 1939–40, for it
was he who commemorated the first expedition with a medal and bragged to the
world about the "German success".17

Göring was the Nazi Party’s number two for so long, but he managed to cheat
death and justice in the most mysterious of circumstances. Born into affluence
as a son of a colonial officer, Göring became one of Germany’s World War I air
aces and ended up highly decorated. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and took
part in the Putsch, where he established himself in Hitler’s favour but also
received a groin injury. As a result of this injury, Göring became addicted to
morphine - an addiction that would have profound consequences.

Göring’s marriage to a wealthy and influential woman helped him consolidate his
position amongst the elite. His connections to the upper classes assisted the
Nazi Party far more beneficially than any parades. In 1932, Göring was elected
Speaker of the Reichstag but, despite his popularity, he was making enemies
because of his self-obsession, ambition and greed. He became one of Germany’s
richest men, virtually all his wealth plundered from victims of the Nazis. In
1936, he reached the pinnacle of his career in the Nazi Party when he became
Hitler’s heir apparent. Yet his popularity had not yet peaked: he would have to
wait until the early German success in deploying the Blitzkrieg against Poland
for that short-lived honour. But, his addiction was starting to plague his
judgment and standing amongst the elite.

The early German victories saw Göring rise in Hitler’s estimation, but Hitler’s
fickle temperament was due to change. When Göring’s Luftwaffe failed to win the
Battle of Britain despite having superior numbers, Göring fell out of favour.
He then found solace only in his morphine and his vast, plundered wealth.

By 1943, Göring was no longer part of the top Nazi leadership; he was heavily
addicted, a virtual recluse and drastically out of favour. Any knowledge about
Nazi survival plans that he would have been privy to would have been disputable,
but it is highly likely that he would have been able to divulge to US
Intelligence enough about Antarctica, learned from his time amongst the elite,
to have compelled the United States to consider the possibility of a Nazi base
on Antarctica and to take action. Moreover, the Americans would have heard
rumours about what the British had discovered.

The first Antarctic summer after the completion of the Nuremberg Trials sawOperation Highjumplaunched; but it is quite possible
that the Americans missed the boat because the then most well informed Nazi,
Grand AdmiralKarl Dönitz,
had already been interrogated extensively by the British. Could a secret deal
have been struck between Dönitz and Britain?

When we look at the
facts, it is more than conceivable that a deal was indeed struck.

Grand Admiral Dönitz: Key to the Antarctic
Haven

“I believe I fought for a just
cause and I refused to run away from my responsibilities when the Nazis, shortly after their final collapse, offered to convoy
me aboard a submarine to safe refuge [emphasis added].”

- Major Vidkun Quisling,
Nuremberg, 1945

Grand Admiral
Dönitz had taken over the leadership of Nazi Germany, and every U-boat, ship,
boat and port still held by the Germans after Hitler’s death was under his
command. He would have been the perfect successor to orchestrate a tactical
escape - an escape that would ensure that the German deaths and the research
undertaken were not in vain and, in short, that would enable the seeds of a
Fourth Reich to disperse.

Many Nazis chose to stay and meet certain death, in spite of theKriegsmarinehaving the largest submarine fleet in
the Atlantic and the navy’s willingness to continue the fight from Norway; it
was not that they had nowhere to flee, but many yearned for martyrdom and knew
that a greater scheme was being implemented: the emergence of a Fourth Reich.

Quisling wanted to die as a Nazi and showed no remorse, just as those who were
hung at Nuremberg had. Their assuredness came from a warped view that they
would be deemed martyrs. Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and numerous other
high-ranking Nazis committed suicide - and taking one’s own life has been the
norm throughout history when the battle is lost and only public humiliation and
execution are certain.

Those who committed suicide in Germany’s final collapse and those who stood at
Nuremberg did so knowing that if they had fled they would have compromised any
secret bases or havens as well as the expatriot communities that flourished in
South America and throughout the world. The chances of a Fourth Reich manifesting
with so many high-profile Nazis in hiding were minimal, and the Germans,
meticulous and diligent as ever, knew that fact. Sacrifices had to be made.

Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz(image right),Second Führer
of Nazi Germany, and his government had been legitimized by various
countries around the world when Hitler’s death and Dönitz’s promotion were
known. However, his promotion also meant that he was ideally placed to assist
the Nazis in their plans to escape Europe.

Tried as a war criminal alongside the rest of the Nazi hierarchy, Dönitz was
given a reprieve from the death sentence and instead was sentenced to serve 10
years in Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Throughout his
trial, Dönitz claimed that he had only fought in a legal war and that he was
ignorant of any Nazi "atrocities" committed. He also claimed to have
no knowledge of the "Final Solution". Albert Speer loathed
Nazism and was comprehensively remorseful of his part in the Third Reich, yet
he received 20 years!

Dönitz, on the
other hand, wanted his navy to be totally behind the Nazi movement, so much so
that he issued a directive on 14 February 1944, ordering his naval officers not
just to accept but to embrace Nazism:

"The whole
officer corps must be so indoctrinated that it feels itself co-responsible for
the Nationalist Socialist State in its entirety. The officer is the exponent of
the State. The idle chatter that the officer is non-political is sheer nonsense
[emphasis added]."18

Dönitz’s light
prison sentence is strange in view of his unbridled passion for Nazism, but his
directive also contravened virtually every rule amongst the German armed
forces. The army’s leadership and, to an extent, the Luftwaffe steered clear of
politics and focused primarily on the war, but Dönitz asserted that to be
"non- political" is "sheer nonsense". His plea for loyalty
could explain the unaccounted-for U-boats and why so many were seen in the
months and years after the war had ended - especially in light of what Albert
Speer noted on 10 December 1947 in Spandau Prison:

"For all his
personal integrity and dependability on the human plane, Dönitz has in no way
revised his view of Hitler. To this day, Hitler is still his commander-in-chief
[emphasis added]."19

In Hitler’s final
political statement, he called for all Nazis "not to give up the struggle
in any circumstances, but to carry it on wherever they may be against the
enemies of the Fatherland". Hitler then named his successor after
denouncing Göring and Himmler as traitors:

"I appoint
Grand Admiral Dönitz as President of the Reich and Supreme Commander of the
Wehrmacht."20

Hitler had chosen
his most loyal military officer and the one person whom he believed could
restore the Reich’s fortunes. As noted by eminent historian Chester Wilmot:

"The
importance Hitler attached to the holding of these U-boats bases reflected the
rising power of Dönitz, who was fast becoming the most influential of his
counsellors."21

Hitler favoured
Dönitz and was so fascinated about the new U-boats’ capabilities and the
possibility of turning the tide in the Atlantic that "from the start of
1945 they were almost in daily consultation".22With the new U-boats being able
to stay submerged the entire trip from Europe to South America or Antarctica,
the chances of a percentage of the Nazi war machine escaping were vastly
improved, as was the ability to deal with the British and American navies.

At the Führer Naval Conference on 3 January 1945, Dönitz bragged about how the
new U-boat fitted with the Schnorchel could "achieve success in waters
where Germany was forced to cease operations more than three years ago".
Dönitz’s 1945 claim was nothing new: back in 1943, he had already claimed that
the new U-boats would create "entirely new possibilities"23and his boasts meant that
Hitler ordered the construction of Dönitz’s U-boats as a top priority.

The faith that the Nazi hierarchy had in the new U-boats never diminished, even
as Russian soldiers were streaming into Germany. On 6 March 1945, Goebbels
spoke up about the sentiment shared amongst the Nazi elite:

"There is
considerable hope for us here. Our U-boats must get to work hard; above all, it
may be anticipated that as the new type gets into action, far greater results
should be achieved than with our old U-boats."24

Goebbels again
noted in his war diary how pleased the Nazi hierarchy was:

"Clearly, the
revival of our U-boat war has made a great impression on the war."

Goebbels’s
perceived "revival" was recorded on 28 March 1945, only a month
before his death in supposed desperation!

Dönitz, as Hitler’s most trusted envoy after Goebbels, was aware of Nazi plans
for the East as well as the concentration camps. And though some historians
suggest he should never have been tried as a war criminal, in the face of the raft
of evidence to the contrary, the only aspect that should raise eyebrows about
Dönitz’s sentence at Nuremberg is its length. His light sentence was due to his
assistance in supplying the Allies with information that was invaluable,
especially when he had virtually all knowledge of the mysterious U-boats that
were being spotted around the world after the war.

Britain, being the nation to apprehend Dönitz, was the main beneficiary of
Dönitz’s intelligence and, as his arrest on 23 May 1945 was the second time he
had been incarcerated by Britain, the British interrogators would have known
just which buttons to switch to get the answers they wanted.

In 1918, in the closing days of World War I, Dönitz had been taken prisoner by
the British Navy. He was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp and then transferred to
the Manchester Royal Lunatic Asylum. After extensive psychological tests, he
was certified "insane" and was left to be "treated" for a
year.

In spite of Goebbels’s comment that Dönitz was "a very cool and realistic
calculator",25the time Dönitz spent in the lunatic asylum would have left mental
scars that would have surfaced if he’d again been threatened with
incarceration. That fear and his loyalty to the Third Reich meant he had no
choice but to stall on the notion of surrender when, on 1 May 1945, he first
heard about his succession after Hitler’s death.

Dönitz then
announced to the Wehrmacht:

"Against the
British and Americans I shall continue the struggle so far and so long as they
hinder me in carrying out the fight against Bolshevism."26

With Dönitz still
in command of a large navy and enough Wehrmacht to cause further problems for
the Allies, his announcement was a threat that the Western Allies in particular
took very seriously; it made them realize that peace was still far from certain
and "Unconditional Surrender" might need reassessing.

The London Times, the day after Dönitz’s announcement, advised caution:

"Dönitz may
gather a force sufficiently large to cause trouble. The fighting spirit of the
navy is probably still high. There is a formidable number of U-boats based on
Norway, where the enemy also has 200,000 land forces and some hundreds of
aeroplanes. It is thus likely that Dönitz contemplates making his stand there
rather than in the overrun Reich or in the southern redoubt now threatened from
the north and south. He may delay somewhat, but cannot alter, the
decision."27

In light of
Dönitz’s pledge to continue the fight and the vast force still under his
command, and considering Allied fears, could "peace" have been struck
- a peace that had guarantees for all sides? Dönitz could have asked for
Germany to be rebuilt and not humiliated like at Versailles, for the Western
Allies to fight the spread of Bolshevism, and for leniency if not clemency from
the victors, including a whitewash of his personal wartime history, in exchange
for a total surrender and for passing on extremely sensitive intelligence. Only
a week afterDönitzhad declared that the war would
continue whilst Bolshevism persisted, he ordered the surrender of all German
forces.

All the facts indicate that Dönitz’s history has been suppressed, and against
all reason Dönitz is still not perceived by mainstream historians as having
been a major player in Nazi Germany. Clemency was shown with such a short prison
sentence, the communist threat had been realized by the Western Allies, and
West Germany rose out of the ashes of May 1945 to become the powerhouse of
Europe, with many of the major companies that bankrolled the Nazi Party forming
huge conglomerates.

Other than formally calling for a German surrender and bringing the war in
Europe to an end, Dönitz carried on as President of Germany for a further three
weeks and was only arrested on 23 May 1945 by British forces.

Dönitz, twice imprisoned by the British and a reluctant admirer of the British
naval tradition (which did nothing to dampen his hatred for Britain), was the
one person who knew the exact state of play concerning the Nazi U-boats,
including the new and formidable Type XXI U-boats. Dönitz was also the one
person who would have known where theNeuschwabenlandbase was and what had been transported
there and elsewhere.

And with
information so vital not just to national security but world security, Dönitz
could have chosen to divulge as little or as much as he wished; no matter how
minimal or sketchy his intelligence, its value was priceless.

Type XXI U-boat U
3008, postwar photo

Dönitz was an
impressive character and in the early stages of the war had impressed Hitler
with his loyalty and vision.

Dönitz duly
received his reward on 31 January 1943 when he was promoted to the position of
Supreme Commander of the Navy. In one of his inaugural speeches to a select
officer elite, Dönitz claimed that "the German submarine fleet is proud of
having built for the Führer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La land,
an impregnable fortress".29This was an impressive statement and one that inspired allegiance
in his officers and pride in Hitler and the Kriegsmarine. Dönitz’s statement
spread around the Kriegsmarine with gusto, for all who heard it believed in the
possibility.

Whilst researching Third Reich mysteries, I encountered an East German source
who had served inthe
Kriegsmarineand has
first-hand accounts aboutNeuschwabenland.
He claimed:

"Neuschwabenland,
after Europe, was in ruins and Norway, completely in German hands, became the
only viable base of operations. When it was decided that for the German nation
surrender was best, those who could, left, and took their chances in the U-boat
convoys.

"Antarctica was a secret but rumours persisted, and only for the most
dedicated was it a haven. Most of those with any intimate knowledge of
Neuschwabenland did not see the end of the war, and of those who did, the
majority were executed, committed suicide or were sent to the Russian gulags...
Only those captured by the British forces fared better, but after interrogation
were forbidden to mention their wartime exploits again. The threat of having
damaging wartime links brought up kept the Germans silent and helped the Allies
suppress the truth."29

The German naval
officer who gave the account was captured by the USSR and sent to the Siberia
for 15 years; when he returned, it was to a communist East Germany. In
contrast, Dönitz served only 10 years and lived in a free West Germany. This
has caused the officer bitterness, especially as mainstream historians dare not
even write about a Nazi Antarctic haven or Dönitz’s passion for National
Socialism.

When Dönitz spoke of a "Shangri-La land" in 1943, was he telling the
truth? With Kerguelen being used as a German U-boat base and Neuschwabenland
still in German plans, Dönitz knew that his statement would impress Hitler.
Unfortunately though, with most of the documents - including speech notes,
memoirs and diaries - relating to Nazi plans forNeuschwabenlanddestroyed, disappeared or archived
firmly away, any suggestion of Antarctica being a Nazi haven was laughed off by
nervous governments. It meant that to raise the subject was to open oneself up
to ridicule.

However, Dönitz’s speeches leave enough clues to cause one to suspect that a
whole chapter from World War II has been purposely suppressed. In 1944, Dönitz
announced:

"The German
Navy will have to accomplish a great task in the future. The German Navy knows
all hiding places in the oceans and therefore it will be very easy to bring the
Führer to a safe place, should the necessity arise, and in which he will have
the opportunity to work out his final plans."30

TheKriegsmarinewas much travelled, loyal to its cause
and daring in its exploits. German U-boats were frequent visitors to the East
Coast of America and they travelled under the Arctic ice and even up the River
Mersey into the Mersey Estuary in England. But their most interesting exploit
was discovering an underwater trench that went straight through Antarctica by
way of a connection of subterranean lakes, caves, crevasses and ancient ice
tunnels.

The Allies took Dönitz’s statement seriously, especially after Hitler’s
mysterious suicide; they were aware that Antarctica could have been the
"safe place" that Dönitz had spoken of. The British were already onto
it, but the Americans were only compelled into action after Dönitz made a statement
in 1946, supposedly during his trial at Nuremberg, boasting of an
"invulnerable fortress, a paradise-like oasis in the middle of eternal
ice".31

Britain, having already investigated the "invulnerable fortress",
assisted the United States by covertly supplying maps of Antarctica, whilst
overtly, along with Chile, Argentina and other claimant countries, expressing
grievances about the intended Operation Highjump. Britain’s assistance in
supplying these maps - similar to the Norwegian maps utilized by the 1938Deutsche Antarktische Expedition- did not paint the full picture.

Dönitz’s information supplied to the British and the likely destruction
undertaken by British forces of the Neuschwabenland base meant that Queen Maud
Land (Neuschwabenland) was not reconnoitered meticulously by the Americans.
There is no answer to explain this omission, though many have speculated. More
than likely it was because the area had been explored so profoundly earlier in
the century, but one can’t help but wonder whether it was because Britain had
been there first, leaving nothing for the Americans to find. However, Operation
Highjump still supposedly recovered evidence of other bases - though, similarly
to British expeditions on Antarctica, Highjump’s true findings have also been suppressed?

Dönitz had a unique knowledge of Antarctica, but it was his knowledge of German
U-boat ports in Norway and U-boats stationed there, as well as the nexus
between Norway and Antarctica, that shed further light on the forgotten
Antarctic front.

But, whilst the
importance of Norway to Dönitz, Hitler and the Kriegsmarine was well known,
some of the real reasons for the initial invasion of Norway are less so and add
even more of a mystery to the history of World War II and the Antarctic front.

The Antarctica mystery deepens
as more details emerge about Norwegian, German, British and American
expeditions from the 1930s and nuclear blasts over Queen Maud Land in the
1950s.

Did Britain Really "Miss the Bus" in
Norway?

“We are standing here in Norway,
undefeated, strong as before. No enemy has dared
attack us. And yet we, too, shall have to bow to the dictate of our enemy for
the benefit of the whole German cause. We trust we shall from now on deal with
men who respect a soldier’s honour.”

- General Böhme, German
Commander-in-Chief in Norway, 7 May 1945

The primary reasons
for Norway’s importance to Germany were that its coastlines made exceptional
U-boat bases, the Germans needed to secure shipments of Swedish iron ore, and
the Vermok hydro-electric plant, which produceddeuterium oxide(heavy water), was essential to their
atomic research, in which they were leading the world at that juncture.

However, there were
other reasons - reasons that caused Hitler to review and reverse his stance on
preserving Norwegian neutrality.

On 14 January 1939, Norway formalized its claim to Queen Maud Land in
Antarctica, its course of action forced on it by the imminent German
discoveries. Adversely, for Norway, its attempt at pre-empting any German
claims failed, and so began a political crisis that led to invasion.

TheDeutsche Antarktische Expedition,
using Norwegian maps, soon realized that the wily Norwegians had omitted the
vast, dry areas that it rediscovered on 20 January 1939. The Norwegians, and
also the British, had long been aware of ice-free areas but had purposely
omitted them on their maps so as to avoid additional claimant countries
appearing and the conceivable diplomatic crises that would ensue.

When the Germans reported the ice-free areas, they were told to claim the whole
area in the name of Nazi Germany. They were ordered to drop stakes with
swastikas on them to state their intent for sovereignty: this, the Nazis hoped,
would be enough to formalize their claim.

Nazi Germany and
Hitler cared little about what the world thought: they had already gained
Austria and Czechoslovakia, and Antarctica was to be a further extension of the
Third Reich. Norway valiantly protested about the German claim and the renaming
ofQueen Maud Landto Neuschwabenland but, with European
nations gearing up for war and the world’s attention turning to Poland,
Antarctica was forgotten.

When war finally broke out in September 1939, most of Germany’s eventual
conquests declared neutrality. Norway was no exception. Hitler wanted Norway to
remain neutral but his War Cabinet, whose opinions he trusted until the tide
turned against Germany, persuaded him otherwise.

On 20 February 1940, Hitler ordered General von Falkenhorst to lead an
expedition force to Norway. Hitler claimed:

"I am informed
that the English intend to land there [Norway] and I want to be there before
them."32

The British prime
minister, Neville Chamberlain, famously boasted when he announced that British
forces had also landed in Norway that Hitler had "missed the bus"33.

His folly caused
his government to collapse, his resignation to be forced and his reputation to
be destroyed. Furthermore, by committing troops to Norway, Chamberlain had
played into the hands of Hitler and all those inside the German War Cabinet.
But had the British mission been a total failure?

Operation Weserübung was launched by Germany on 9 April 1940 and Norway was
invaded (Denmark was also invaded that same day). And though the British and
Allied forces had to be evacuated in June, they had slowed the unstoppable
Wehrmacht enough to help the monarchy, the government and the national treasure
be evacuated on board the British cruiser, HMS Devonshire. King Haakon VII
represented Norway in exile, and the vast treasures and documents saved were
beneficial not just to the preservation of Norway but to British Intelligence.

Hitler was furious with Vidkun Quisling, whom he had hoped would aid the Nazis
more comprehensively. Quisling ultimately would have no power, and his
inability to stop the evacuation of the monarchy, the government and not least
the vast treasures and documentation caused Hitler to lose faith in him and
declare him a Norwegian traitor. Those who failed Hitler lost their standing -
Hitler made sure of that. Even so, Quisling claimed publicly that he had been
offered "safe refuge". Whether the statement was that of a madman or
was an honest admission, it echoed the claims of others.

Though Hitler had only wished to beat the British to Norway, his War Cabinet
knew that Norway was vital to virtually all the branches of Germany’s armed
forces and was more beneficial to its war effort than any other conquest. Nazi
Germany’s occupation of Norway brought immense benefits to the Reich. There
were thousands of miles of protected fjords for the German U-boats, and there
was the possibility of the Nazis exerting pressure on neutral Sweden.34

The Third Reich now
had a border closer to the Arctic,35and there was also the chance to train its soldiers in polar
conditions, especially after the acquisition of Spitzbergen,36much to the pleasure of Himmler
and his Ahnenerbe. Best of all, Norway was within striking distance of all Nazi
Germany’s enemies. Norway and its ports also made marshalling the Arctic Sea
and the North Atlantic far more profitable. These benefits, allied with the
primary reasons, made Norway a highly prized conquest.

However, Germany’s occupation was not without problems. Britain heavily
financed the Norwegian Resistance and it was due to their cooperation that theVermok hydro-electric plantwas targeted and sabotaged so
successfully.

Information was passed on a two-way basis and the SOE and SIS were privy to any
revelation uncovered. British Intelligence also had access to all the Norwegian
Government’s files, no matter how "sensitive" the information.
Britain at that point stood alone: any information, no matter how trivial, was
indispensable. Many Poles had gone to the UK after the start of the German
occupation with intelligence on the Germans as well as with one of the first
prototypes of the Enigma code-making device. Similarly, with the invasion and
occupation of Norway, many fleeing Norwegians brought secrets of the Reich to
England.

After Britain frustrated Germany in the Battle of Britain and, as a result,
instilled hope in the numerous governments in exile, in 1940–41 it could only
fight the Germans in Africa or bomb their cities. But news was soon filtering
through about a new front, and one that both the British and Norwegian
governments had hoped would never be opened - a front for which there was
little in the way of contingency plans.

On 13 January 1941, German commandos under the leadership of Captain
Ernst-Felix Kruder from the commerce raider, the Pinguin, stormed and violently
captured two Norwegian whaling ships. If that had happened around European
coastlines, there would have been no mystery because the Germans allowed none
of its conquered peoples to sail too far from land; but because the captures
took place in the Southern Ocean off Neuschwabenland, the news when it filtered
through could only have sent shock waves through both the British and Norwegian
governments.

However, the
mystery deepened further because the subsequent night the German commandos
resurfaced and captured three more whaling ships and also 11 catchers.

The German Antarctic Fleet was active and prospering - mines they had laid
around Australian ports sank the first US vessel lost to enemy action - but it
was the Antarctic coast and islands where they mainly loitered. The Atlantis,37the Pinguin,38the Stier39and the Komet40were just four of the
documented ships that had anomalous reasons for being so far south. All four
were eventually sunk by the British Navy, far from Antarctica in various parts
of the world from France to the Ascension Islands.

Now that the Antarctic Front had been truly opened, Britain increased its
Antarctic bases and personnel numbers and even issued a postmark. However,
possibly the most important area that demanded a base was in Neuschwabenland,
officially known asQueen Maud
Land. Through Norway’s assistance with information and maps, Britain
envisaged Maudheim as the most viable place for a base because it was close
enough to be able to spy on German activities and also was within striking
distance for a highly trained and disciplined military unit. The seeds for the
Neuschwabenland campaign had been sown.

From 1941 until the start of the British–Swedish–Norwegian Expedition of
1949–52, Britain sent at least 12 official missions to Antarctica - half of
them between the end of the war and the beginning ofOperation Highjump, led
byAdmiral Byrd, starting
in December 1946.

Even more
intriguingly, Britain sent no missions from the commencement of Highjump until
1948, during which time the US had Antarctica all to itself. Britain
nonetheless was more active in Antarctica during the 1940s than any other
nation, yet the only Antarctic mission mentioned in depth by historians isAdmiral Byrd’s. His mission
still overshadows every other mission and is the main focus of attention for
many conspiracy theorists. Britain’s exertions were and still are totally
overlooked; and with Admiral Byrd spreading misinformation, the true conspiracy
concerning Antarctica as a Nazi haven was forgotten.

After the German surrender, Norway still needed to be mopped up, the possible
Nazi exodus needed to be ascertained and the secrets that Norway held still
needed more investigation. The discoveries further confirmed that the war had
ended just in time, but suspicions were still aroused about the estimated
250,000 missing German personnel - including Martin Bormann and thousands of
other wanted Nazi war criminals.

The enigma of the
submarines that were presumed to have been utilized in their escape also
required consideration. However, even though a percentage of Germany’s U-boats
may have fled Norway, what was uncovered was still intriguing and certainly
proved that the Germans had made great technological strides.

In June 1945, theWashington
Postpublished an article
stating that the RAF had found, near Oslo, 40 giant Heinkel bombers - aircraft
with a 7,000-mile range.

The article stated
that the captured German ground crews had claimed that,

"the planes
were held in readiness for a mission to New York".41

The British also
requisitioned some of the U-boats held in Norway at the end of the war,
including the new Type XXI.

Captain Mervyn
Wingfield was placed in charge of taking these 25 salvaged U-boats to Scapa
Flow and, interestingly, chose the new Type XXI to sail in. Upon returning, he
stated that "the Allies had won the submarine war just in time"42- a statement reiterated by all
the Allies when speaking about the Nazis’ new weapons.

In the UK, British Intelligence unearthed more of Norway’s secrets but
suppressed them; Antarctica was no exception. When the Norwegian Government
returned to a liberated Norway, Antarctica soon returned to their
consciousness, though the Norwegians would have to wait several years to go
back there, lest the rumours of a Nazi base were true.

On the other hand, Britain decided it had collated enough knowledge about
Antarctica to initiate an intense investigation - one that had to dispel all
fears and hide all evidence - for it could not tolerate any more technology or
personnel being acquired by the wrong hands, namely, the USSR and the USA.

Britain had helped liberate Norway and, as 1945 was drawing to a close, was in
the process of "liberating" Queen Maud Land (the new atlas of the
post-war world no longer recognized Neuschwabenland). However, the mysterious
wartime expeditions conducted by all the combatant countries, especially
Germany, were not entered into the World War II history books.

A travesty of
history had occurred.

Postwar Power Plays

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, suspicions
surfaced and rumours spread, and the new enemy - one that Hitler had hoped to
annihilate - was communism.

Allies became
enemies, whilst former enemies became allies in the battle against communism.
And whilst the USA was offering huge financial subsidies to Western governments
to keep them communism-free, Britain was left alone to clean up the last
remaining Nazi outposts.

When German forces surrendered in May 1945, peace should have broken out but,
alas, the world was thrown into a turmoil that was every bit as volatile as it
had been before the most violent war in humanity’s history began. The year 1945
was not just the year that World War II ended but also the year that the Cold
War started in earnest; and whilst the USSR and the USA had fears about each
other’s intentions, they also had differing ideas for how Germany was to be
administered.

The problems
started at the Yalta Conference of 4–11 February 1945, but were heightened by
the end of the war in Europe when the misinformation and secrecy about the
Allies’ discoveries made the partnership that had destroyed Nazism no longer
tenable.

The atmosphere that surrounded Germany in May 1945 following the Nazi surrender
was one of exhaustion; but whilst the Western Allies were so fatigued by the
war effort, Stalin was not going to give up his territorial gains and was
prepared for war and, indeed, fully expected it. The Soviets did nothing to
allay the fears that a Nazi haven had been built or that Hitler might not have
committed suicide but, instead, had escaped.43

Just before Berlin fell to the Soviets, it was reported that Martin Bormann had
discussed Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, with Grand Admiral Dönitz. This
conversation that emanated from Hitler’s Berlin bunker was one of the last to
be intercepted in the war in Europe. Argentina had long been perceived as a
haven for many escaping Nazis, but this possibility was long denied by the sympathetic
Peron. Yet, with the Soviet General Zhukov and Stalin disagreeing as to whether
Hitler was dead or had fled, the Nazi survival myth gained momentum.

Britain, in the unique position of holding the strategically important Falkland
Islands, was the only country in the immediate months after the war that was in
a position to investigate the leading Nazis’ claims about an Antarctic haven
and the rise of a Fourth Reich in South America.

The USA, distracted by the war against Japan and the brewing Cold War, had been
caught short by Britain’s Antarctic exertions and humbled by its aggressive
stance. So the Americans soon adopted a policy, dreamt up during the war, that
would destroy Britain’s imperial aspirations, hinder every attempt by Britain
to exert any influence around the world and make the country an
"ally" in name only.

However, as early
as 1942, Britain and British identity were suffering as a result of the United
States’ globalization agenda. It must be remembered that Britain was denied its
own atomic bomb, despite the fact that the bomb could have not been created without
British expertise. Furthermore, the British people faced worse rationing than
any other Western nation, lasting direfully until the 1950s, and Britain was
also pressured into giving full independence or self-government to most of the
territories in its Empire.

So, whilst Britain went into World War II a superpower, by the end of the war
and by the actions of American foreign policy, especiallyOperation Highjump, it
had been put firmly in its place. The United States became the only country
that could successfully influence Britain - as the 1956 Suez crisis proved.

Even now, 60 years
after the end of World War II, British blood is still being shed on behalf of
US foreign policy.

Exploring Queen Maud Land

As discussed in part one,the
Nazi "Shangri-La"did
exist. Of unknown size, it was set up during the 1938–39 Deutsche
Antarktische Expedition.

The existence of a
Nazi Antarctic base hidden in vast caverns was considered feasible enough forthe British to set up bases in many parts of Antarctica during the
war in response to the threat. And whilst the officially recorded British
expeditions mainly concentrated around the Antarctic Peninsula, those not
recorded were those that concentrated on investigating Queen Maud Land - so
named by Norwegian whalers prior to 1939 in honour ofQueen Maud of Norway(1869–1938), consort of King Haakon
VII and formerly Princess Maud of the United Kingdom, a granddaughter of Queen
Victoria.

The Norwegians began exploring Queen Maud Land intensively in 1930, and using
planes for the first time they photographed and sketched the area. In
subsequent flights in 1931 and 1936, they uncovered areas unknown and
identified anomalies that would attract worldwide interest.

On 4 February 1936,
Lars Christensen dropped the Norwegian flag from his plane, thus claiming the
land informally. The maps produced from the photographs omitted the dry areas
and lakes that had been identified, but the discoveries led to private
discussions between the Norwegian Government and the Monarchy as to whether
Norway should annex the area.

After much deliberation, on 14 January 1939 - six days before the firstDeutsche Antarktische Expeditionflight over Queen Maud Land - the
Norwegian Government passed a royal decree annexing the region between Enderby
Land and Coates Land as Queen Maud Land.

TheDeutsche Antarktische
Expeditiondiscoveries were
well publicized. Captain Ritscher and his two Dornier Wal flying boats (Boreas
and Passat) flew extensively and produced in excess of 1,500 photographs that
covered an area of over 250,000 square kilometers. However, as with the strange
case of the suppressed Norwegian maps, most of the films, records and research
materials were destroyed in the war, though some have since resurfaced.

During the war and up till the end of the Antarctic summer of 1945–46,
Britain’s RAF was also flying over Antarctica to map the area and search for
suitable places to establish bases. It discovered more dry areas and possibly
even the intelligence that provokedBritain’s
Neuschwabenland campaign.

Britain’s arrogance in committing troops to Antarctica, independent of the United
States, and in celebrating the feat with the release in February 1946 of a
provocative stamp set, would inevitably lead to Britain’s claims on Antarctica
being contested, even though the stamps commemorated Britain’s final fight with
Nazism rather than being a statement of its Antarctic claims. And even though
Britain expressed outrage publicly when Highjump was launched, it was just a
pretence: privately, Britain knew that the USA’s newfound superpower status
meant that it would not permit Antarctica to be utilized by other nations for
financial gain.

Britain halted its Antarctic flights and operations for two years, giving the
United States a free hand in Antarctica with the commencement of Operation
Highjump. With the Nazi haven destroyed, there was little need for the British
to return: the Americans would not discover anything that had not already been
discovered. Or would they?

In the two years they had to discover as much about Antarctica as possible, the
Americans found dry areas and warm-water lakes that provoked immense media
interest, butOperation
Highjump, which they’d planned to last for six months, ended after just
eight weeks. They received a hostile reaction from other nations, but it was
only after the mission’s return that the rumours and theories began to abound
and the enigma surrounding Highjump really began. The US conducted another
expedition, Operation Windmill, in the Antarctic summer of 1947–48 and mapped
additional areas of special interest.

The RAF returned in 1948–49 and flew extensively in search of a viable base inQueen Maud Landfor the joint Norwegian–
British–Swedish Expedition (NBSE) that was going to last from 1949 to 1952 and
whose objective was to investigate and verify the 1938 German discoveries.

Britain and Norway knew that the area of Queen Maud Land which the Nazis had
utilized would be vastly different from that which was mapped in the 1930s and
early 1940s. An explosion of sufficient magnitude could have created a warm
front. The ground could have warmed enough for rising heat to have created
precipitation - how much could only be gauged by the velocity of the explosion.
In all probability, snow would have fallen on areas that had not seen water for
thousands if not millions of years and the landscape would have changed
significantly.

When NBSE team members inspected the area, they found the largest land animal
(bar penguins) on the continent: tiny mites. That discovery was an irregularity
in itself. The expedition also discovered unusual lichens and mosses in certain
areas. However, the lakes that had been so prevalent in reports from previous
expeditions were largely not noted; nor were the vast, dry areas. Could the
lakes have frozen and the majority of the dry areas have disappeared under a
blanket of snow?

Meantime, more and more countries wanted their own bases in Antarctica, and
soon skirmishes started. In November 1948, Britain’s Hope Base on the Antarctic
Peninsula was suspiciously destroyed by fire; in 1952, Argentinian forces shot
at the British returning from the joint expedition. Details of other skirmishes
unfortunately have been suppressed for diplomatic reasons.

However, in 1982, Britain went to war against Argentina over the Falkland
Islands (theMalvinas).
Its defeat of the Argentinian forces led to the collapse of the fascist
military junta that had dominated Argentina for several years. Argentina also
had more than a passing interest in Antarctica but, with the deaths of over
2,000 personnel in the Malvinas campaign and facing the possibility of Buenos
Aires being bombed, Argentina had no choice but to admit defeat. Yet, whilst
admitting the battle was lost, Argentina insisted the war was not over.

The Malvinas are
Argentinian possessions according to South American atlases, and who is to say
that war will not erupt again one day?

If that were to
happen, Britain would again send an armada to fight because, quite patently,
the Falkland Islands are still one of Britain’s most prized dependencies and
the reason is quite simple: their close proximity to Antarctica and all its
treasures and mysteries that one day will be allowed to be utilized and
accessed.44

Military Interest in Antarctica

Before the Antarctic Treaty was ratified on the 23 June 1961, theInternational
Geophysical Year(IGY) of
1958 brought immense international attention and cooperation to the frozen
continent. The Americans returned in numbers, as did the British, but the
Soviets also began their own experiments.

The aim of the IGY was to enable nations to put aside their claims whilst
sharing resources and scientific information. The success of the IGY allowed
the Antarctic Treaty to be enacted - but with the USSR stating that it had no
intention of leaving Antarctica and that it would keep all its bases when the
IGY ended. However, all claimants deemed that "Antarctica is to be used
for peaceful purposes only", although military personnel and equipment may
be utilized but not for military reasons.

In the years prior to the June 1961 ratification, the USA, UK and USSR had all
used Antarctica for military purposes and all three nations were rumoured to
have tested nuclear bombs on the continent. On 27 and 30 August and 6 September
1958, at least three such bombs were detonated in Antarctica, allegedly by the
Americans. Rumour has it that they were set off in the area ofQueen Maud Landand were triggered 300 meters above
the target, with the initial aim being to "recover" frozen areas. The
locations of other bomb detonation sites have been firmly suppressed, but it is
believed that the areas reconnoitered by the Germans in 1939 and 1940 were
targeted.45

With the Germans and Americans officially claiming to have found warm-water
lakes on their expeditions, it was only a matter of time before more were
discovered. One such lake, discovered by the Russians, is Lake Vostok, which is
4,000 meters below the surface and curiously is located under the Russian base
camp of Vostok.

News of the
discovery was not released to the world until 1989, so had the Soviets found
the subterranean lake years earlier and was this their main reason for refusing
to leave its base? The lake has still not been investigated, mainly out of fear
of what could be unleashed and to avoid contamination of the lake, although a
huge magnetic anomaly has been identified.46

With so many lakes being discovered and with satellites proving that the
Antarctic is made up of huge, ice-encased archipelagos, is it unimaginable to
believe that a subterranean trench, wide enough for U-boats to pass through,
actually runs through Antarctica, as claimed by author Christof Friedrich and
on thePiri Reis map?

If the Nazis had built a hidden base in Neuschwabenland and that base had beendestroyedin 1945, leaving only a few German
Antarctic outposts, then any evidence of a Nazi incursion on Antarctica would
have been destroyed comprehensively by the nuclear exertions of the USA, USSR
and UK.

Nevertheless,
rumours persist that the Nazis were not totally destroyed in Antarctica butfled to secret bases in South
America.47

Britain’s Neuschwabenland Campaign Revisited

If British forces had indeed destroyed the Nazi outpost that was rumoured to have existed amid the Mühlig-Hoffmann Mountains,
this would never be made public nor be given much credence by mainstream
historians.

Even so, Britain
was the nation most active in Antarctica during the 1940s, which is intriguing
if not suspicious. Furthermore, Britain was privileged enough to have collated
a mass of evidence on German Antarctic intentions via the leading Nazis it
apprehended and via its efficient intelligence network and its own field
investigations.

All of this leads
one to the conclusion that something significant must have occurred there, and
it appears only time will tell. Postwar scientific revelations suggest that
Antarctica was disrupted by human activity at some time in its near past - a
finding that may add credence to the likelihood ofBritain’s Neuschwabenland campaign.

In 1999, a research expedition discovered a virus to which
neither animals nor humans are immune. Specialists were unable to explain the
source of the virus, though some tried. According to some scientists, the virus
could have been a prehistoric life-form that had been preserved in the ice.
However, other specialists speculated that the virus could have been a secret
biological weapon that had been delivered to Antarctica during the1938–39
Deutsche Antarktische Expedition.

If a biological
weapon or virus had been taken to Antarctica, it is doubtful that it would have
been unleashed onto the continent intentionally, but, instead, stored with
extreme care. If the Germans really had been the architects of the Antarctic
virus and they had taken studious care of their weapon, would it be too
adventurous to think that the virus could have been released by an attack of
some degree on the very place where it was stored?

Another mystery may be central to Queen Maud Land and what may have happened in
1945. In 1984 theBritish
Antarctic Survey, based at Halley Station,48noticed a hole in the ozone
layer for the first time; it was located over Queen Maud Land. Scientists,
after much speculation, claimed that the hole was due to CFCs and in time would
increase global warming. Could the hole, like the virus release, have been
caused by a huge explosion of nuclear proportions? With three known atomic
tests and a considerable number undisclosed associated with the likely
destruction of the Nazi base, it appears that thehole was caused by more than just
CFCs.

Subterranean lakes with signs of life, geothermally warmed lakes in dry valleys
in a supposed frozen wasteland, viruses that threaten mankind, mysterious holes
in the atmosphere allied with suppressed military ventures may seem the work of
fiction, and yet they are all fact!

Antarctica is a
truly mysterious place, and that is why it is inconceivable that the Nazis
would claim an area and leave it unoccupied and undefended, especially when the
Channel Islands, for instance, a strategically unimportant Nazi gain, utilized
for its defenses more than 10 per cent of all the concrete and iron that was
used in the construction of the Atlantic Wall - a wall that stretched from the
Pyrenées to the North Cape of Norway!

However, trying to validate the story of theBritish
Neuschwabenland campaignis
slightly tougher to ascertain. Tales of Polar Men, ancient tunnels and a
decisive battle against remnants of the Third Reich appear fanciful. Even so,
it is widely known that Nazi scientists were experimenting on men to simulate
the freezing conditions of the Eastern Front and to help their forces better
deal with them.49Could the heinous experiments have been a success of sorts,
allowing certain soldiers to combat the cold more efficiently?

Tales of ancient tunnels, even tunnels leading through theMühlig-Hoffmann Mountains,
appear at first far-fetched, but would a cavern network, glacially eroded
enough, appear unnatural and thus be explained as a tunnel? Soldiers are not
scientists and see things as they are - though whether it was a tunnel or a
long cavern network that the British had discovered, it ultimately led to a
Nazi base.

The base could have
been similar to the U-boat base that appeared in the filmRaiders of the Lost Ark, but
that’s highly unlikely - but what isn’t is the possibility that a base had been
constructed and was being manned by German forces. The British had secret
wartime bases, so why not the Nazis? It also must be remembered that some
Japanese soldiers fought on, not accepting defeat, for over 20 years,50so why not pockets of Germans?
In fact,Nazi Werewolveswere active after the May surrender,
and isolated attacks occurred for a few years after the war was deemed over and
Nazism was thwarted.51

Whether the Neuschwabenland base was eradicated by Britain’s Special Forces in
1945–46 or not, it is more than feasible that Britain could have pulled off the
feat. During the war, Britain had some of the finest special forces personnel
in the world, and still does today, and they were expertly trained in sabotage
and destruction, using limited manpower in covert and inexpensive operations.

They were so
successful that, even afterthe
Dieppe fiasco, Hitler ordered that any of them captured were to be
summarily executed.

Britain, unlike the United States, believed that success is more attainable
with limited resources; however, with the US philosophy of "might is
right", it is no wonder that most attention paid to Antarctic expeditions
has been firmly focused onOperation Highjump.52

Whether the British mission did destroy the Nazi base, with any remaining Nazis
finally being expunged by the atomic force of the wartime allies, is not the
question that needs asking. What is, though, is just how much of Antarctica’s
past, present and, indeed, its future has been, is being and will be
suppressed.

Postscript: 1966 British Antarctic Survey
Mystery

After the first part of Britain’s Secret War in Antarctica was published, I was inundated with people and specialists in their field with
more substantiating information.

However, by far the
most intriguing and exciting was an email sent to me by Miles Johnston who
investigated a strange story about Antarctica with Danny Wilson whilst with theIrish UFO Research Centre. The
centre was contacted by an Eric Wilkinson in 1975, who had reported a strange
incident in 1966 when he was with theBritish
Antarctic Survey.

An even stranger
photo backs up the story (see above). In Miles Johnston’s own words, he
explains:

"In 1975 I
investigated a UFO/Strange Black Ray Cloud formation, taken by a Belfast member
of the British Antarctic Survey. He gave me some images of a pulsing cloud
formation firing a black ray into the ice, which bounced off and reflected
further away from him. Who knows... maybe someone down there is using negative
energy beam weapons? Or was... since the images were taken in 1966."

click image to enlarge

The photo [above]
is indeed enigmatic and substantiates the fact that Antarctica and Britain’s
role there are shrouded in mystery.

Editor’s Note

The author advises
that Operation Tabalan, referred to in part one of his article, should read
Tabarin, and apologizes for this error. Operation Tabarin was named after a
Parisian nightclub.

Endnotes

9. Christof,
Friedrich, Germany’s Antarctic Claim: Secret Nazi Polar Expeditions, Samisdat
Publishers, Toronto, 1979.
10. Hess’s insanity is just one aspect of the Hess mystery, and the numerous
references to his insanity are too numerous to catalogue. However, it did not
prevent him from standing for trial at Nuremberg.
11. Picknett, L., Prior, S. and Prince, C., Double Standards, Little Brown,
2001.
12. Van Paasen, Pierre, Chicago Times, 1941.
13. Britain, France, the USSR and USA took turns to guard war criminals
including Hess in Spandau Prison. Hess’s suspicious death occurred, so we are
led to believe, because the Russians were going to release him when their turn
next came around. See Picknett et al., Double Standards, for more detail.
14. Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946).
15. ibid.
16. ibid.
17. This was reported in the German press on 10 April 1939.
18. Officer Naval Directive, 14 February 1944.
19. Speer, A., Spandau: The Secret Diaries, MacMillan, New York, 1976, p. 81.
20. Hitler’s final political testament, 29 April 1945.
21. Wilmot, C., The Struggle For Europe, Wordsworth Editions Ltd,
Hertfordshire, 1997, p. 617.
22. ibid.
23. Führer Naval Conference, 8 July 1943.
24. Report sent by Goebbels to Dönitz, 6 March 1945.
25. Wilmot, op. cit.
26. Directive to the Wehrmacht, 1 May 1945, reported in The Times, London, 2
May 1945.
27. The Times (London), 2 May 1945.
28. The National Police Gazette, January 1977.
29. The former Kriegsmarine officer was from Dresden and was interviewed in
December 2003. I investigated claims that Hitler and Eva Braun’s child had been
born there in 1942.
30. Officer Naval Directive, 1944.
31. Nuremberg Trials, 1946.

32. Hart, Basil
Liddell, History of the Second World War, Cassell, London, 1970, p. 411.
33. Neville Chamberlain, Parliamentary Speech, 2 April 1940.
34. A total of 2,140,00 German soldiers and more then 100,000 German military
railway carriages crossed Sweden until the traverse was officially suspended on
20 August 1943.
35. The Nazis were fascinated by polar myths, and with the USSR and the USA
more accessible via the frozen Arctic Ocean and Murmansk the only port
available in Europe for the Soviet Union, the Arctic convoys were constantly
harassed, whilst scientific studies increased in the Arctic.
36. Spitzbergen has numerous mysteries surrounding it, from anomalous plant and
animal fossils to ancient ruins. Many believed it to be ancient Thule. Also,
Spitzbergen cannot be mentioned without the rumour concerning a UFO crash there
in the 1950s; British scientists were supposedly involved in the retrieval.
37. Atlantis had a name-change to Tamesis before being sunk by HMS Devonshire near
the Ascension Islands on 22 November 1941.
38. The Pinguin was sunk off the Persian Gulf by HMS Cornwall on 8 May 1941.
39. The Stier visited Antarctica and Kerguelen in 1942.
40. The Komet was sunk off Cherbourg in 1942 by a British destroyer.
41. The Washington Post, 29 June 1945.
42. The Times, London, June 1945 (exact date not available).
43. An official Soviet statement released in September 1945 claimed that
"mysterious persons were on board the submarine, among them a
woman..." With Stalin going on record with his view that Hitler was alive,
and contradictions coming from his own generals, the USSR only added to the
mystery.
44. A 50-year extension on the mining ban was agreed in 1998; it runs until the
year 2048.
45. Stevens, Henry, The Last Battalion and German Arctic, Antarctic, and Andean
Bases, The German Research Project, Gorman, California, 1997.
46. Scientists, with NASA’s assistance, have drilled to within 500 metres of
the lake. Russia recently declared that during the Antarctic 2006–07 summer
season it will drill into the lake.
47. Rumours that the Nazis built bases in theAndesand/or theAmazonrainforest go hand in hand with
stories that the Nazis were in league withalien
racesand are definitely
TBTBs (Too Bizarre to Believe), yet there may be some truth in the
rumours.
48. Halley, Britain’s premier Antarctic station, is named after the British
astronomer Sir Edmund Halley, who extraordinarily was the first person to state
that the Earth is hollow, consisting of four concentric spheres. Another
Antarctic enigma?
49. The experiments involved freezing the victim until unconscious, then
rapidly plunging the victim into hot water. Other experiments, heinous in their
morality and beneficial to the Nazi cause, meant that all the results and
documentation detailing the experiments were amongst the information most
sought by the Allies. It is well known that without Nazi human experiments, the
United States would not have gone to the Moon in 1969.
50. "The Final Surrender: For Lt Onoda, the shooting stops 29 years
late", Daily Mirror, UK, 11 March 1974. Lt Onoda killed 39 people between
the end of the war and his capture in 1974.
51. In June 1945, a Werewolf bomb exploded in Bremen Police Headquarters,
killing five Americans and 39 Germans. The Werewolves were created by Himmler
in 1944 and went on to fight against the occupying forces until at least late
1947.
52. "Operation Highjump", typed into Google, produces 46,700 results,
far exceeding any other Antarctic mission mentions by thousands!

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